Activation Info:
System:
Eureka
Prerequisites:
+ You must have rescued the Ambassador in Act 2 Mission 07.
+ You need to investigate the base around Lucifuge. This is hinted at in the dialogue from the STC around the L-point encountered when the player enters Eureka for the first time after rescuing the Ambassador.
Overview:
You must persuade the Third Way to join your cause and help alleviate the food shortages from Eureka brought about by the Marauder attacks. You can do this by acquiring the designs for a batch of hunter-seeker mines from some pirates, and then providing the third-way with a shipment of these mines to defend their settlements.
1) Fly to Lucifuge, as you get close to the base, the Third Way will hail you and tell you to get lost.
2) As you are leaving you will witness a Third Way convoy being attacked by Marauders.
3) After the attack, Cal will have the idea that now they may listen to you. So fly back to the base, upon returning to the base, you will offer help and the Thirdway will begrudgingly accept.
4) You contact Jafs who will mention that he knows of some pirates that have hunter-seeker mines, and where you can find them; a near by asteroid base called Hastur; Fly to Hastur.
5) Upon arrival at Hastur, a pirate by the name of Middeon Blackhartt will contact you and tells you to try and get past his minefield. Pick your way past the minefield protecting the pirate's base and then dock with it. Be careful, the mines can catch-up with you quickly and, once surrounded by them, you have no chance of survival. Try and pick them off from a distance and use your turret fighters on fire at will if you have any.
6) Once you have made it though the minefield, dock to the station and a conversation with Mideon will start up. In the conversation with Middeon, the Pirate Captain, pick the first option twice to humour him and get him to give you the plans to the mines.
7) The pirates will release a cargo pod, pick this up and return it to your base.
8) Manufacture 10 hunter-seeker mines. You will do this by collecting cargo and recycling this. Then you can produce the mines by using the manufacture screen. Each pod of mines requires 150 manufacturing units.
9) Upon completion of the 10 pods of mines, Jafs will prompt you to take the first pod yourself. Equip your ship with a pod of the mines and set off to Lucifuge.
10) As you get close to Lucifuge, marauders will attack you - kill them.
11) Now give the cargo pod to the Third Way.